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Curating their own social media accounts can help teenagers build their identities.
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Issues included poor wheelchair access in living spaces, inaccessible lecture theatres and broken lifts.
Adolescence is an age when people are particularly vulnerable to mental health problems.
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New research looking at data from 200,000 children in Wales has found a substantial increase in mental health issues.
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A new campaign encourages young Australians to get tested for STIs more frequently and to take other measures to improve their sexual health.
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Schools are operating with already stretched resources. But they are an obvious route to supporting children’s mental health.
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The rules on what counts as taxable income haven’t changed.
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Chances are, your teenager has already seen online porn. How should you respond if you find out they are watching it? What conversations should you be having with young children to prepare them?
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Children with DCD often avoid the tasks they struggle with, meaning their issues may become invisible.
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It’s now common knowledge loans and gifts from family are a large part of breaking into the housing market. But how is parental financial support being used in other areas?
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So-called honour-based abuse thrives in secrecy and fear.
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We thought after the worst of a global pandemic, young people’s outlook for the future might have improved. Our survey shows they’ve actually gotten worse.
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Single parents need support, not stigma.
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Have conversations with your child about online safety – and reassure them you will help them with any problems they encounter online.
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We found each of the books tended to give parents one approach for dealing with their child’s sleep, rather than a range of options.
GPs could “prescribe” activities to a child or teen with the aim of improving health and wellbeing.
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Social prescribing programmes could provide children and adolescents much needed opportunities to socialise and be active.
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Brave thinking is needed to solve the problems with childcare.
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Playgroups are good for parents’ wellbeing – and are a place where they can take a first step into volunteering.
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Shouting at children or calling them names is a kind of emotional abuse.
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A staggered age of consent has been suggested, which would make it illegal for adults to have sex with under-18s.
Work being carried out at Mayflower Primary School in Leicester, which has been affected with sub standard reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac).
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The relationship between where pupils learn and how well they learn should be a central part of decisions about building, or repairing, schools.